<p>I am old not wise but can say this, hung in there.
If you don’t feel like doing, you don’t have to make art till it comes back.
But do what you have to do meanwhile, like, go to school study bare minimum eat good sleep good
don’t do things you shouldn’t do; drugs, drinking, rockn rolling even for the excuse of " to get inspiration" no " but I create so much better when I’m high"
There is natural high, that comes to you when you are in zone, this book someone recommended I am half way now called " the Element" by Ken Robinson, read it if you don’t mind reading.</p>
<p>I always thought how nice to make dolls and sew stuff and draw manga all day long without parents teachers telling me to stop, never gonna make living.
Now I do that for living ( make bears and dogs and dolls, draw pictures for templates and tags and stuff that go with the products.
It sucks sometimes once it is your job.
Yet most of the time I look back and think that, I am doing what grownups said otherwise but doing it OK.
Mediocre artist life is not that bad come to think of it, as long as you can pay bills and just about enough to eat plus some chocolate.
Kids nowadays are lucky because there are so much more information and tools to find out anything about everything but unlucky because you’d know cons before any pros.</p>
<p>I’ll never be that good because
I won’t able to get in because
I can not pay for that because
I don’t think I am fit to do that because</p>
<p>I am against giving false hope or praise to my art kid. He knows all that above and me telling you are so talented! you’d get full scholarships! you’ll be the star! I am so proud of you! won’t help him much at this point.
but I will tell him if I really like something he did and why, even though noone else thinks it’s good.
What cool about art ( fine art ) is that, anything goes. Noone to judge you if your aim is just to create.
And often enough, in the end those kids who stick with it because they can’t help - are the ones that would make something out of their lives but often enough by paying price of one’s physical or mental health or personal hygiene or relationships ( with opposite sex, same sex, family, friends, dogs and cats)
Maybe we parents know this, that’s why we want square nice clean job for our kids and education that more likely to lead that way.</p>
<p>I the end, choice is yours and your life is just started, you never know. Keep it up.</p>